Chap. 255.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 44 of an act entitled “An act
to regulate the operation of vehicles on public highways to govern and
protect pedestrians while using such highways; to provide penalties for
violating the provisions of this act and the disposition of fines and for-
feitures collected hereunder to make uniform the laws relating to the sub-
ject matter of this act, and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
the provisions of this act,” approved March 25, 1926. [S B 149]

Approved March 24, 1930

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
forty-four of an act entitled “An act to regulate the operation of ve-
hicles on public highways to govern and protect pedestrians while using
such highways; to provide penalties for violating the provisions of this
act and the disposition of fines and forfeitures collected hereunder to
make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act, and to
repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
act,” approved March twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and twenty-six,
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 44. Trailers and towed vehicles—(a) No motor vehicle
shall be driven upon any highway drawing or having attached thereto
more than one other vehicle, except that a motor vehicle with semi-
trailer may draw in addition thereto one other vehicle.

(b) The draw bar or other connection between any two ve-
hicles, one of which is towing or drawing the other on a highway,
shall not exceed fifteen feet in length from one vehicle to the other.
Whenever such connection consists of a chain, rope or cable, there
shall be displayed upon such connection a red flag, or cloth, not less
than twelve inches both in length and width. (Nineteen hundred and
twenty-six, page seven hundred and eighty.)

(c) Provided that in the cities of this Commonwealth, the councils
of the said cities may, in their discretion, by general ordinance, permit
motor vehicles to be driven upon the streets of their respective cities
drawing or having attached thereto more than one other vehicle, trailer
or semi-trailer.